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Slovak PM warns of EU collapse

Slovakia's PM, Robert Fico, in an article published in business daily Hospodarske Noviny on Tuesday warned the EU was on the brink of collapse. "Whether someone likes it or not, 2016 will be the year when the EU will either get the migration crisis under control or collapse," he wrote.

Central European countries say they have "nothing to hide" on rule of law issues - while justice commissioner Vera Jourova said they should agree to the Commission's controversial budget plans on rule of law conditionality.

Giovanni Buttarelli, the European data protection supervisor, says the EU-US data sharing pact known as Privacy Shield will play an increasingly minor role given the general data protection regulation.